Citizen Feign: the Pretense of Citizenship Essay

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Citizen Feign:
The Pretense of Citizenship
Here, in this nation of ours, exists a problem which we don’t really hear much about. We drive our cars, attend our schools, work at our jobs without ever realizing there are others among us being oppressed. The Bidoun, or the Stateless, are a group of people residing in Kuwait who’ve been denied basic civil rights, and sometimes even their human rights. They cannot legally obtain birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates. The same applies to driving licenses, identification cards, and passports. They do not have access to public education, health care, housing or employment. The stateless of Kuwait have always been an underrepresented minority, but now is the time for change. New laws and policies must be passed to secure the Bidouns’ rights as citizens and ensure their injustices be addressed. There is little to deny when it comes to the apparent problem of the Bidoun in Kuwait. The issue has been raised countless times by MP’s trying to rectify our injustices. Human rights groups have constantly reprimanded Kuwait on its discriminatory actions towards the Bidoun. Refugees International, a Washington DC based human rights organization, stated that “Kuwait must begin immediate and transparent reviews of all bidun cases towards providing naturalization.” (McLeod) Another RI report commented on the government’s “sluggish reaction” to the issue at hand and stated that the designated committees actions “[have] been deplorable.”
Statelessness has existed in Kuwait since its independence in 1961. After an initial registration period ended, authorities shifted Bidoun citizenship applications to a series of committees that have avoided resolving the claims while maintaining sole authority to determine the Bidoun access to civil documentation and social services. Um Walid, a 43-year-old Bidoun widow, said that she

no inviolable state............................. 32
No historical right ......................................................................... 38
The feasibility of conquering the Arab states ............................... 40
Abandon the pretense of humane war........................................... 41
Making Arabs Agree to Peace ...................................................... 43
Objectives of Peace ........................................................ 48
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prey to an emergent Nazi party and its blanket scapegoating of the Jewish people. Yet Johnny’s hatred of the Nazis ran deeper than his ethnic prejudices, owing to Hitler’s mistreatment of Germany’s working class. When the NSDAP stripped him of his citizenship, he went so far as to warn a brother who had joined the fascist movement that he would kill him on sight for doing so. In fact, De Graaf revealed to his de facto brother-in-law, Ernst Krüger, that he had even had a leading part in the assassination

offense). The father confessor absolved him of his sins. absolution,
N.
V.
assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; wholly engage. During the nineteenth
century, America absorbed hordes of immigrants, turning them into productive citizens. Can Huggies diapers absorb more liquid than Pampers can? This question does not absorb me; instead, it bores me. absorption,
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abstain
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refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice. After
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sane one left.” Irritated at his superiors, Yossarian exclaims, “am I supposed to get my ass shot off just because the colonel wants to be a general?” At the same time, Yossarian exhibits bravery and gets a medal (stripping off all his clothes to feign insanity just before it is to be pinned on his uniform) and a promotion to captain for bombing Po on his second attempt. Later, Yossarian orchestrates another hospital admission. Then a doctor covers him in bandages so he can pretend to be the dead

belong”—is, for Mardrus’s reader, “I am chained here by the Invisible Force until the extinction of the centuries.” Nor does sorcery have in Mardrus a co-conspirator of good will. He is incapable of mentioning the supernatural without smirking. He feigns to translate, for example: One day when Caliph Abdelmelik, hearing tell of certain vessels of antique copper whose contents were a strange black smoke-cloud of diabolical form, marveled greatly and seemed to place in doubt the reality of facts so